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I like discussing the editing of photos more than anything, so I'm going to do that and leave other stuff to other people.

As it stands, your photo has a too-warm effect given the type/time of day and the subject. It's orangish in hue, and this is an overcast die and a somber location.

I would drop some blue hue to counteract this - paying special attention to the wall. That thing is black. I mean, onyx, it sucks in all light and is very black. Here it looks, again, a little too warm.

Kick up the contrast overall - especially in the clouds - bring out their shape and definition more. It's an interesting aspect to the photo that is currently lost. Work the Washington Monument a bit more, contrast up a bit more than the rest of the photo and work the colors a little bit - try to make it more tannish/white.

Sharpen the words on the wall with either a sharpen option or a a contrast brush.

I have taken the liberty of doing these things myself and have a comparison shot to give you an idea - I'm at work and this was a quick fix, but you get the general idea. Spending more than 15 minutes on it and giving it the attention I couldn't will make some of he harsher areas fade.

(Hope you're not offended I toyed with your photo; I really like photo editing.)

Something Scott Kelby said (I think he's a rockstar teacher, even though I'm not a huge fan of his photography): "becoming a good editor is absolutely the most important thing you can do for your photography." (The whole video is great, but the part I linked to is focused on editing - mostly on which photos to select to put in your portfolio, but the rest of the video shows some great before and after shots of his raw photos - it's refreshing to see his raw photographs are pretty much the same as everyone's, lol.)

Really dig the composition, and love the way the horizon coming in from the right appears to simply continue along in the reflection.

Initially I found the trees poking out from above the wall to be distracting, but not that I'm admiring how the horizon continues in the wall, (as noted above) I like that those trees look like continuations of those "in the wall". Cool shot.

I myself am an amateur. I can give you my impression though on this picture and I must admit that I was quite confused at first because I was searching for the subject of the picture. The fence and wall in the picture act as leading lines to the obelisk but said was out of focus. My eye finds this very distracting as even when I try to focus on the wall it still gets led to the blurry obelisk in the back.

Techincally it is a very nice picture though but (as somebody else said) you might want to work on the temperature a bit. ;)